Supported by HFBK Hamburg

The audio piece Speechless Questions approaches the topic of listening in a poetic way. Eda Alan and Nora Sternfeld ask how we can develop a different kind of communication and thus also create the basis for a new form of coexistence. In times of poly-crisis, in times of raging wars and propaganda, how can we find other words, words for what cannot yet be said? Eda Alsan and Nora Sternfeld appeal for a visionof coexistence in which listening becomes the basis for voices that have not yet been heard but are beginning to emerge.

Biographies

Eda Aslan (b. 1993, Istanbul) is an artist based in Hamburg. She graduated from the Time-Based Media department at HFBK Hamburg with the support of a DAAD Scholarship. Her artistic practice engages with narratives marginalized or overlooked in historiography. Through sculpture, text, sound, and archival research, she traces the political, ecological, and geographical imprints carried by circulating raw materials and fragmented histories. Aslan's individual and collective projects have been supported by various grants. Most recently she is the recipient of the Karl H. Ditze Prize (2025) and the Max Pechstein Prize (2025) Her work has been shown at institutions such as Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, and the Jewish Museum Franken.

Nora Sternfeld is an art educator and curator, as well as a professor of art education at the HFBK Hamburg. From 2018 to 2020, she was a documenta professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2012 to 2018, she was professor of curating and mediating art at Aalto University in Helsinki. She is also co-director of /ecm – Master's program in exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, a member of the core team at schnittpunkt. exhibition theory & practice, co- founder and partner of trafo.K, office for education, art, and critical knowledge production (Vienna), and since 2011 part of freethought, platform for research, education, and production (London). In this context, she was also one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly 2016 and is a 2020 BAK Fellow, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht). She publishes on contemporary art, education theory, exhibitions, politics of history, and anti-racism.